It was just that the game wanted you to grab the controller and hold the outside... prongs. To leave the joystick... dangling in the middle.

Maybe I had Freudian problems as a kid.

Past couple years have definitely proved that. The games I’ve most enjoyed have been around that time.

Good lord, did her face always look like that? WHAT’S WRONG WITH HER FAAAACE.

But I’ll never forget the game, as it was the only N64 game that I played that made you use the buttons and then the D-pad for movement.

K.

I know it’s a joke, I’m saying it’s tired and, excluding 4, pretty unfounded. We disagree there. Development delays? I mean, maybe just for V.

This game will make me by a switch. It’s just staggering.

The MGSV bit is hearsay, we can’t say what if he really wasn’t able to direct his team, so that’s just a scapegoat, and the gameplay is an expansion of Ground Zeroes, so... pretty sure Kojima had a lot to do with it.

I’m not ignoring anything. OP said the game would just be trailers. It’s a ludicrous exaggeration on a…

In that respect I understand, I thought you just meant the dev acquisitions. The industry is definitely steering towards those streaming/cloud based solutions.

Saw someone mention that this and DMC5 are apparently using performance capture, hence the more realistic, if intentionally imperfect, character faces.

“Pervasive” and “all he does” were the key descriptors. All of his games have had amazing gameplay experiences, but people just go “lol MGS4", even when his last game was much more focused, and felt great. (To say nothing of how innovative MGS was or how polished on that formula 3 was).

Can’t imagine that they won’t release Death Stranding. We had a pretty clear view of two huge areas, and they have 4 recognizable actors who have already recorded quite a bit of capture performances, it would seem. I mean, people can troll Death Stranding, but “the new Last Guardian”? The timeframe since Kojima left…

As a huge fan of all the games they showed, I have to admit... the live music thing is getting a bit old. I love TLOU’s music, but the composer played the same banjo riff like 20 times, it felt like he kept faking out. And then the music before Ghost sounded good... but with all the moving and intermission and etc.,…

I’m curious what you mean by that, then. ‘Done with’ in what way? And Microsoft just buying developers doesn’t really mean too much; remember EA? They buy and shutter devs all the time. It’s not really the same as taking the time to cultivate a relationship with a studio.

For all we know, MS just bought the company…

Oh man, wow, MGS4 had a large portion of cutscenes! You’re right! I never realized before!

MGS4 may be the most egregious, but it was also supposed to be the last one. I don’t think the amount in any of the other games was a detriment.

It’s just a boring meme to me. It’s all anyone can point out, and it’s not really even a good joke anymore. He’s clearly a gamemaker, and though the experiences aren’t…

Examples of more gruesome games? Gears of War, God of War, hell, even Tomb Raider remakes had moments that were more overt in their attempt to freak out the player with violence and assault, imo. Though, again, since this is some of the first real gore in TLOU, I can get how it’s a bit much in just a trailer.

My…

And MGSV’s cutscene ratio is the exact opposite. But to say that V was “first and only modern game he’s made that WASN’T a movie with gameplay tacked on” is just flat out ignoring the pioneering MGS or the refined MGS3.

Sure.

Also: the games would not exist without him. He literally... created them.

There were probably hundreds of people involved in making Inception, but it was still Christopher Nolan’s film. He wrote and directed it.

Are videogames inherently more collaborative? As they are today in big budget scale, absolutely. But…

MGS4 was also a giant love letter to fans of the series (and had some pretty damn fun gameplay).

MGS, MGS2, MGS3; all terrific games with great narratives and story.

He’s basically the only developer who’s ever made the style of game that he makes. Not for you? That’s cool. Inherently bad because it has a lot of…

Death Stranding is obviously not an “action” game at this point. After Silent Hills, I’m not surprised he’s focusing on a different feel than just shooting or combat. I’m personally down for that, and the atmosphere is really great.

Same with Last of Us Part II. The music, the tense atmosphere, the animations and open…